Some Facts on the last time an Eastern Conference team eliminated LeBron

Steph Curry and James Harden were rookies

Karl-Anthony Towns was two years away from being able to legally drive a car

r/NBA had fewer than 800 subscribers at the time

Devin Booker was still in eighth grade

Reddit’s most hated movie Avatar was still in theaters

Are you reading this on an iPhone? If you were reading it when this series happened, it would have been the iPhone 3GS, and you’d be operating on iOS 3.0

The US was still looking for Osama Bin Laden

2x Reigning MVP SGA was 11 years old

Elon Musk was broke and couch surfing

Drake hadn’t released an album

It’s been since May 13, 2010 that any Eastern Conference Team has dethroned LeBron James. 25 series win streak.

foofighter1351 | Raptors

280 | 8 hours ago

Philly gettin to a conference finals vs Lebron’s eastern conference dominance, it’s a true immovable object vs unstoppable force matchup.

Kiriegloom | Bulls

79 | 8 hours ago

It’s why he joined. Everyone will call him the goat if he can overcome such a formidable curse

ThinkSoftware | Hawks

43 | 8 hours ago

Lebron will go on to join the Sacramento Kings, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, and Cleveland Guardians

YourFlyIsOpenMcFly | Raptors

17 | 7 hours ago

Let’s see him do it on skates and bring the Maple leafs to glory

LeBronn_Jaimes_hand | Supersonics

7 | 6 hours ago

Can he do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?

Gandolfthewhite182 | 76ers

3 | 5 hours ago

You could add prime 99 and 66 to the leafs roster on vet minimums and the leafs would still get beat by the panthers or bruins in 7.

StrategyTop7612 [OP] | Clippers

1 | 7 hours ago

Cleveland Guardians? Is this the 5th in winning percentage since 2016 Guardians? Who let bro on the team?

OkPalpitation4976

10 | 8 hours ago

I think having to live in Sacramento is the worst NBA curse

azuredrg | Warriors

6 | 7 hours ago

Thank you, keep folks from coming here and driving prices up on everything please please. My city next to sac is officially a bay area suburb once that whole foods opens up this month.

JuJu_Conman | Kings

6 | 8 hours ago

Try living in Sac and not being in the nba :(

Professional-Rub152

3 | 7 hours ago

I will move there when I need to be in the top 5% of attractive people in a city.

Gandolfthewhite182 | 76ers

3 | 4 hours ago

Sacramento is a great city to live in. Lots of fun stuff to do. Big city feel in a small city. Close to Nocal mountains and big city Bay Area. Nevada is easily drivable. 7 hour drive to socal. One of the lowest cost of living in Cali.

Sacramento is a diamond of a place to live.

MonoSignalI43

1 | 6 hours ago

Philly finally getting their turn at the boss fight after all these years.

Then_Landscape_3970

142 | 8 hours ago

Elon Musk was not broke in 2010 lol. This was like a month before Tesla’s IPO.

SnooChipmunks469 | Knicks

139 | 7 hours ago

Elon Musk has never been broke in his life. His dad is also very wealthy from emeralds.

Lynchie24 | Celtics

95 | 8 hours ago

I stopped reading after that. What a dumb comment lol. He cashed out of PayPal in 2002 for more money than any of us will ever see combined.

popopo__123

58 | 7 hours ago

And he was born a rich kid lol. His dad was a neo colonizer that owned an *emerald mine. You can guess how he treated the miners, especially the black ones.

Zigxy | Pacers Bandwagon

12 | 7 hours ago

I thought it was an emerald mine

popopo__123

4 | 7 hours ago

Yes, I fixed it.

lalakingmalibog | Mavericks

6 | 4 hours ago

Billionaires and miners, name a more iconic duo

tobygeneral

1 | 4 hours ago

So you only missed the last factoid?

Lynchie24 | Celtics

3 | 3 hours ago

Yeah I guess.

JaroslavKomkov | Cavaliers

1 | 2 hours ago

Getoffmydickerson among us make it more fair

TrickiestToast | Celtics

26 | 7 hours ago

That poor broke son of an emerald mine owner

PurposeMeetsPractice

47 | 8 hours ago

R/nba had fewer than 800 subscribers is the most surprising fact

ItsSchlim | Pistons

19 | 7 hours ago

Subreddits only came to existence a year and a half prior

Revenesis | Knicks

2 | 5 hours ago

Subreddits barely came out tbh. This place was way smaller and personal when I joined.

abafda

18 | 7 hours ago

The monkey’s paw curls: the sixers miss the playoffs entirely, to keep LeBron streak of not losing in the playoffs to the east alive without breaking the Philly curse.

Valuable-Average-865

13 | 8 hours ago

KD had no bitches. So some things never change

DmitryChernov

4 | 7 hours ago

At that time he was tweeting about how he would drink Scarlett Johanson’s bathwater. Yep, never changed.

humphrey_the_camel | Bulls

12 | 7 hours ago

The Nets (an Eastern Conference team) beat the Lakers on March 22, 2019 (a game that LeBron started) to eliminate the Lakers/LeBron from 2019 playoff contention

Connect-Day-6881

10 | 8 hours ago

Two showers ago

Jayveesac | Lakers

8 | 7 hours ago

Tiktok was still a song

NanoCurrency

4 | 7 hours ago

24 eastern conference playoff series wins in a row.

What a streak. Maybe he gets to 27 or even 30?

Muted_Store_9867

3 | 8 hours ago

That’s actually so fucking wild

BradWonder | BOS

3 | 5 hours ago

Shouldn’t it be a multiple of 3? I think its actually 24 series not 25

Ballshart62

5 | 5 hours ago

Includes 2020 vs the Heat in the finals I believe

BradWonder | BOS

3 | 3 hours ago

Great point. My mind conveniently forgot the bubble

Adventurous_Fold_345

1 | 7 hours ago

Why did people hate avatar????

Gandolfthewhite182 | 76ers

2 | 4 hours ago

Because it was popular. Are you new to the internet ?

NanoCurrency

2 | 7 hours ago

800 subscribers?!??

onlyjapanese

1 | 8 hours ago

The iPhone 3GS detail is what really puts this into perspective 😭

FreeHat1234 | Knicks

1 | 7 hours ago

Insert Brunson dancing gif

Reachin4ThoseGrapes

1 | 6 hours ago

Good times.

MountainTwo3845 | Rockets

1 | 6 hours ago

iPhone 3 was a game changer

Gandolfthewhite182 | 76ers

2 | 4 hours ago

iPhone 3 was probably the last time apple innovated the iPhone. Now they just put a slightly better processor and camera in and charged people 1200 dollars every year and half.

Top_Rutabaga_9015

1 | 4 hours ago

Boy I miss 2010

Civilianscum | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

The East had always been week during those eras. Since moving West he has made the finals once. And why the argument of him making so many finals appearances is moot.

Basic_Commercial_806

2 | 37 minutes ago

Well he was 35 when he went to the West

VanGrants | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

damn, and to think the Knicks are gonna end the streak

pandaisunbreakable

0 | 7 hours ago

During 2010-2018 Lebron also only met one all-NBA 1st team player on his way to the finals cause he teamed up with another one

sleepyE0295

0 | 4 hours ago

Very fortune player that’s for sure

Apprehensive-Sun1784

-1 | 6 hours ago

Last time any conference team eliminated Michael Jordan, it was Bill Clinton’s first term in office.

Both kinda cool when you look at it this way!

Economy_Training_661

-1 | 3 hours ago

And the best east teams he eliminated during that run was?

Old Celtics big 3, prepubescent Tatum Celtics, playoff P and roy hibbert, DeMar raptors, 22 yo DRose, and Jimmy buckets bubble heat….fierce competition

CupCharming4931 | Knicks

-1 | an hour ago

All you nephews have homework today. Go on YouTube and search “Michael Jordan” I know the video quality might not be what you’re used to, but just try watching. I guarantee you will learn some very important things

TelephoneCreepy2518

-3 | 8 hours ago

This would be a lot more impressive if he stayed in the East.

DasFunke

13 | 8 hours ago

He only went 24 consecutive matchups while in the east.

TelephoneCreepy2518

-4 | 7 hours ago

Why not post this? Who cares about the 1

Malachandra | Nuggets

1 | 7 hours ago

He had a hall of fame career in the east after this

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-5 | 8 hours ago

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Impressive_Science_8

4 | 7 hours ago

It’s been the same amount of years in each conference and he went to 8 straight finals through the east and won a finals series against an east team OG has only ever played 2 series vs the west vs LeBrons 25 series win streak vs the east